"You deserve everything, Diana. To be protected and cherished every single day." His voice lowered. "Then debauched thoroughly every night."

Firstly, I would like to thank Valentine PR and Nana & M. Malone for the opportunity to arc read this book, as well as the opportunity to read the first book in this series!
I thoroughly enjoyed the first book, Broken Trust, which followed the characters of Lucia and Noah, so reading a book following Lucia's brother was just the cherry on top <3. I did skip over book 2 of this series to read this arc review, but with the way that these authors tells a story, I will most definitely be going back to read it.

This story follows Rafe DeMarco after retirement from his undercover job working as an assassin for the FBI. He's finally ready to enjoy - or try to - his new civilian life when a damsel in distress is planted in his path. Diana Renquist - or should we say Vandergraff? She's got an old score to settle and won't rest until the man who she witnessed murder her father is put behind bars. But what happens when she starts falling for her target? And what happens when Rafe discovers that his sweet damsel isn't who she says she is?

This story definitely had me intrigued, but at times fell a bit flat. I didn't want to rate it the same as Broken Trust, so this book is sitting at around 3.5 stars for me. Don't get me wrong, it's a great story and the characters were easy to love and trust, but there were just some things that didn't sit right with me. Like how Rafe was all of a sudden so open to trusting a complete stranger after spending his entire life working as an operative who constantly looked over his shoulder. It also felt a tad repetitive at points, like whenever we thought that they would finally communicate, the MCs would distract each other with spicy times rather than talk. On that note, those spicy scenes were radiating with heat!

Overall this was a good story and I found myself unable to put my kindle down in the last half of the book! These authors are definitely onto something great <3 maybe Matthias' book next....(pls)